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3 OCT 13
October hath landed, and is the month of Halloween and scary movies and such. I'm trying to think of the last movie that legit gave me the heeby jeebies, and I'd have to give that honor to The Ring (The original version). I saw this forever and a go before the American version came out. I was watching it at home, alone, and when it finished...I cannot make this up, the tv went all staticky when I pulled the DVD out and at the exact moment, the phone rang. I was like, Ohhhhhhhhhh heeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll nooooooooooooooo! I didn't answer the phone. I was like F-that. I have since seen the American version which I felt wasn't scary at all because the original didn't have any jump cuts so you couldn't escape the horror of the girl oozing from the tv, but the American one did, and I was like, womp womp, lame.
Thinking back to when I was a kid, there were three movies that gave me nightmares. The first was the aptly named, Nightmare on Elm Street. My dad was like, no way, my kids are going to see this movie, and we snuck and saw it anyway, and the next thing I knew I was on the couch and couldn't sleep. My dad woke me up b/c of course I'd eventually fallen asleep and he was like, what are you doing up little one, to bed with you, and he scooped me up and carried me to my room and then I was like dad, don't leave, LOL!!!!
The second was most definitely Poltergeist. The thing that most terrified me about this one was my bed in our old house, faced my walk in closet, and instead of a nightlight, my mom would sometimes leave the light on in there...holy mother...after seeing that, she had the light on in there as usual, but it looked just like the movie and I swear all my stuffed animals were alive in there talking about trying to steal my soul. That movie F'd me up for reals. I don't think I've ever seen the movie since. P.S. they are doing a re-make 2014.
The last movie is really just comical because it's not a scary movie at all. In fact, its quite a nerdy movie, Short Circuit which featured a former U.S. military robot built originally for the Cold War, who winds up being struck by lighting and gaining sentience. Basically the movie is a bunch of comical scenes of the robot discovering what humanity is like...but for some reason, after seeing this movie, I became really scared of door knobs. I can't even explain in. I would freak out about the door knob at the end of the hall. I really did not like that robot. It's probably one of the funniest things that ever happened to me in retrospect. Oh boy. Speaking of irrational fears, it reminds me of this girl once at work. We were having a festival for the kids, and they had these clowns at the end of the hall. Well, after attending a friends birthday party, she stepped out and LOST HER SH*T. She started screaming...not just like quiet screams, like loud everybody is turning around and wondering what's happening screams. Her mom looks up and is like, oh my god, get them out of there now. I told her, I can't, they are basically entertaining those other children down there. The girl was just flipping out. It was almost like the equivalent of a 2 year old tantrum except she was 12. I walked down the hall, and kindly asked if the clowns could step behind the wall while the girl and her mother left, and they did, but the girl could I guess sense them there because she was crying hysterically and hitting at her mom and trying to run. I'm not going to lie...it was one of the best laughs I've had. I was telling my co-workers, guess that white elephant DVD of "IT" was a bad choice.
Says the kid once scared of door knobs....
Kostnice je podzemní kaplí Hřbitovního kostela Všech Svatých, který byl původně součástí cisterciáckého opatství v Sedlci, založeného v roce 1142 panem Miroslavem z Markvartic. Kostelík byl vystavěn ve 14. století jako karner - skládá se ze dvou kaplí postavených nad sebou - a podle nejnovějších průzkumů se spolu s dalšími stavebními součástmi opatství snažil přiblížit svým jeruzalémským vzorům.
Podzemní kaple sedleckého kostelíka je mimořádně podobná podzemní kapli na jeruzalémském poli Hakeldama, kam byli pohřbíváni zemřelí poutníci. Těla zemřelých se v hakeldamské půdě údajně rozložila během pouhých 24 hodin.
Poté, co podle pověsti jeden ze sedleckých opatů, který do Jeruzaléma cestoval s diplomatickým poselstvím, přivezl z hakeldamského pole hrst hlíny a rozprášil ji na klášterním hřbitově, stal se tento hřbitov takzvaným Svatým polem, nejstarším ve střední Evropě. To vyvolalo zájem o pohřeb v Sedlci a tak se sedlecký hřbitov začal rozrůstat.
Po morové ráně roku 1318 zde bylo pochováno na 30 tisíc zesnulých, dalších 10 tisíc mrtvých pojal hřbitov během husitských válek. V roce 1421 byly objekty sedleckého kláštera zasaženy požárem založeným husity, požár částečně zasáhl také stavbu hřbitovního kostelíka.
Po zrušení hřbitova na konci 15. století byly exhumované kosti uloženy vně i uvnitř podzemní kaple, kde je poloslepý sedlecký mnich v roce 1511 seskládal do velkých pyramid.
Na začátku 18. století byl kostelík upraven v souvislosti s celkovou obnovou kláštera podle koncepce opata Snopka a architekta Jana Blažeje SANTINIHO - Aichla (*1677 +1723). Stavbu bylo nutné staticky zajistit, proto Santini vestavěl štít mezi věže západního průčelí a stavbu vzepřel přístavbou západní předsíně. Ve stylu svého specifického architektonického projevu (tzv. barokní gotika) upravil i interiér, včetně návrhu výzdoby z kostí i dalších doplňků jako např. řezaných korun nad pyramidami, svícnů (fiál) aj.
Když v roce 1784 císař Josef II. rušil kláštery, zanikl i sedlecký klášter a hřbitovní kostelík se dostal do držení rodu Schwarzenberků z Orlíka. Jejich stavební mistr František Rint z České skalice provedl v roce 1870 mimořádně nápaditě výzdobu podzemní kaple pomocí kostí a lebek ze zmíněných pyramid. Kosti, které použil k výzdobě, dezinfikoval a vybělil chlorovým vápnem. Doplnil výzdobu Schwarzenberským erbem a do výzdoby zakomponoval i své jméno. Proto bývá považován za původního autora tohoto vyjímečného uspořádání lidských ostatků.
For 365 Days
Not that you can see it that well from this angle, but this is my new hair.
It had been quite a while since I had a trim; I think the stylist said she took off maybe an inch.
She also re-touched my bangs. They're angled off to the left, like they were last time. And angled the hair around my face just a smidge to frame my face.
I need to get a frontal portrait for you to see it the way it really is.
I'm really hoping to grow it long enough to cut out the highlighted bits, and then grow it again to donate to locks of love.
...though I don't know if I'm going to have the patience for that.
I have been wanting to cut it.
Long hair is such a pain.
It gets caught in the seatbelt rewinder thing. It gets caught between my purse and my shoulder.
...but it doesn't go spastic and get all kinds of staticky like it does when I have short hair.
...and it has the added benefit of me being able to do a lot more with it.
...and there is the possibility of dying it.
The stylist today told me about something called a "shine" which is a dye but doesn't suck out your natural color. I could do the dark red that I've been wanting to try. They're having a special on color treatments....
Who knows?
Maybe someday.
I have a history of taking the worst ID photos ever... unintentionally, too.
When I received my first driver's license my junior year of high school, I looked like a thug. In 2001, when I took my university ID, I looked like an emo kid who got punched in the face. When I turned 21 and had to get my license renewed, my perfectly combed hair started to stick up because I lifted my head towards the staticky photo backdrop -- hence my gigantically-chinned, prison mugshot. When my dad dragged me to get my passport taken last year, I only had 2 hours of sleep and hadn't taken a shower, thus looking like a greasy pedophile.
Today, as I went to the DMV to get my license renewed, I decided to dress up and practice posing my face in front of the mirror. However, by the time I did get my photo taken, I started to blink... and now, for the next 4 years, my picture looks like a stoned serial killer.
I've put off posting this photo for a while because I've been trying to remember the name of a particular phenomenon. Did you ever walk up to a box fan, put your mouth just inches away, say "aaaahhhhhh," and listen to how weird it sounds due to the fan blades chopping up the sound waves? Well, in what I presume was done as a cheap shortcut, a technician choice to gang up electrical junction boxes and install speakers at the same spot as the ceiling fans. When the fans are running (which is pretty much all the time—this is Florida), they chop up the sound waves of the music, making it sound worse than a staticky, poorly tuned radio station. There *IS* a name for this phenomenon, but for the life of me I can't remember or look up what it is.
Remember when you were a curious kid and you tried to see Skinemax through the static? Oh come on... you know you did it!
For FGR: televisions
For some reason, Delaney's balloon kept ending up in her armpit, which was apparently really staticky!
B's hair all staticky - he was running through these dangling yellow rubbery strands of stretchy stuff that looked like overgrown spaghetti, in the kid play area of the basement.
"Nejmenším vozem Tatra třídy s motorem vzadu a s výraznými aerodynamickými prvky karoserie byl typ Tatra 97. Konstrukčně navazoval na typ Tatra 77 a 87. S druhým z nich měl i některé unifikované díly, lišil se však od něho menšími rozměry, jednodílným čelním sklem, měl pouze dva světlomety a zadní částí karoserie bez třetího bočního okénka. Vozů tohoto typu bylo vyrobeno pouze 508 kusů. Pohonnou jednotku tvořil čtyřdobý vzduchem chlazený plochý čtyřválec s protilehlými válci s rozvodem OHC, uložený podélně za zadní nápravou. Motor při kompresním poměru 5,9:1 dával nejvyšší výkon při 3500 ot/min. Písty z lehkého kovu měly dva těsnící a jeden stírací kroužek. Staticky a dynamicky vyvážený klikový hřídel byl uložen ve třech ložiskách. Pohonná směs se připravovala v jednoduchém spádovém karburátoru Zenith 30 IMF, kam se dopravovalo palivo membránovým čerpadlem. Akumulátorové zapalování bylo na 12 V, značky Bosch či Scintilla. Přenos hnací síly na poháněná zadní kola umožňovala jednokotoučová suchá spojka a čtyřstupňová převodovka v bloku s rozvodovkou se synchronizací třetího a čtvrtého rychlostního stupně a s řadící pákou na podlaze. Podvozek nahrazovala bezrámová konstrukce - samonosná ocelová karoserie s vestavěným páteřovým nosníkem čtvercového průřezu. Všechna kola byla nezávisle zavěšena Přední kola na dvou příčných listových pérech, zadní kyvadlová náprava na šikmých půleliptických listových pérech. Vpředu i vzadu se nalézaly teleskopické tlumiče. Provozní brzdy byly kapalinové bubnové na všechna čtyři kola, parkovací mechanická brzdila jen bubny zadních kol. Řízení bylo hřebenové , kola se obouvala do pneumatik o rozměru 5,75 x 16". Samonosná ocelová karosérie byla čtyřdveřová s předními sedadly samostatnými a posuvnými. Za zadním sedadlem, které bylo vcelku, se po sklopení opěradla nalézal zavazadlový prostor o objemu 0,4 m3. Vůz měl rozchod kol vpředu 1250 mm, vzadu 1230 mm, rozvor náprav 2600 mm, byl dlouhý 4270 mm, široký 1610 mm, vysoký 1450 mm se světlou výškou 210 m. Pohotovostní hmotnost nepřesahovala 1150 kg, užitečná hmotnost 450 kg. Vůz dosahoval největší rychlosti 130 km/h při spotřebě paliva 11 litrů a spotřebě oleje 0,2 litru na 100 km. Největší stoupavost při plném zatížení byla 30%. Karoserie vozu byla tehdy ještě bez obvyklých stupaček, s blatníky vestavěnými do karoserie a zakrytými zadními koly, se zapuštěnými klikami dveří, zapuštěnými ručičkovými ukazateli směru a polozapuštěnými světlomety. Automobil se vyráběl s levostranným i pravostranným řízením. Široké přední i zadní dveře s úhlem otevření téměř 90° umožňovaly pohodlné nastupování. Všechna boční skla byla spouštěcí. Vytápění teplým vzduchem od motoru se dodávalo pouze na přání. Vůz na pohled zvenčí budil dojem mnohem většího automobilu než jsou jeho skutečné rozměry. Zdá se neuvěřitelné, že je pouze o 70 mm delší než Škoda 120, stejně široký a jen o 10 mm vyšší. Pro Tatru 97 znamenala "čáru pres rozpočet" účast na mezinárodní výstavě v Berlíně roku 1939. Na jejím zahájení nechyběl Adolf Hitler, Goebbels, Göring a ostatní říšské špičky. Při prohlídce expozice Tatry zaujaly "vůdce" vystavené modely. Tatru 97 srovnával s novým produktem německého průmyslu - vozem KdF (Kraft und Freude), později známé jako VW - Käfer. Jeho konstruktérem byl Ferdinand Porsche. Podobnost vozů byla očividná a navíc parametry Tatry 97 byly v mnohém lepší. Nehledě na celkový vzhled vozu, Tatra v tu dobu nabízela pro tyto typy vozů kromě základní škály barev i devět druhů metalíz. Z Berlína ale přišel po výstavě údajně příkaz k zastavení výroby kopřivnického čtyřválce. Svědectví o této akci podal spolupracovník Hanse Ledwinky, p. Oskar Pitsch z Rakouska. Tak se stalo, že Tatra 97 skončila rokem 1939."
Technické údaje: tatra-oldtimer.webnode.cz/historie-/tatra/tatra-97/techni...
(Tatra oldtimer © 2014)
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"Mittelklasse-Stromlinienwagen mit neuem luftgekühlten Boxermotor in OHC-Bauweise. 6 l Ölfüllung. Kühlung mittels eines Gebläses und Luftleitblechen. Einscheibentrockenkupplung und Getreibe mit synchronisiertem 3. und 4. Gang. Fahrwerk wie beim Typ 87 mit Lookheed-Bremsanlage. Spurweite vorne 1250 mm, hinten 1230 mm, Radstand 2600 mm, Bodenfreiheit 210 mm.
Der Wagen besaß eine dem Typ 87 entlehnte Stromlinienkarosserie mit vier Türen. Lufteinlässe in der Motorhaube. Luftleitflosse wie beim Typ 77 A nur bei Einzelnen Modellen. Rückfenster hinter der hinteren Sitzbank und in der Motorhaube. Teils Pendelwinker, teils Blinker auf der Kotflügeln. Gesamtstückzahl: 508
Typ: 97
Baujahr: 1937-1938, 1946
Anordnung des Motors: Heck
Kühlung: Luft
Zylinderzahl: 4
Bohrung: 75 mm
Hub: 99 mm
Hubraum: 1749 ccm
Verdichtungsverhältnis: 1 : 5,9
Leistung 40 PS
bei U/min: 3500
Vergaser: Zenith 30 IMF
Zündung: Bosch Batterie 12 V
Gesamtgewicht: 1150 kg
Länge: 4270 mm
Breite: 1610 mm
Höhe: 1450 mm
Reifengrösse: 5,75 - 16
Kraftstofffverbrauch Liter auf 100 km: 11
Höchstgeschwindigkeit km/h: 130
(Die Geschichte der Tatra Automobile, Wolfgang Schmarbeck, 1977)
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"Design of the T-97 was finalized by Erich Ledwinka, one of Hans Ledwinka’s sons, and was developed alongside the T-87. It was in effect a slightly scaled down version of the T-87 and was almost identical in style. The most obvious styling difference between the two models is the lack of the sixth window on each side of the T-97. Unlike its larger sibling, the T-97’s front windshield is a single flat pane of glass and it lacks the third front headlight.
The T-97 is built on a self-supporting pressed steel platform with a central tube for added strength. With a rear mounted 4-cylinder engine, the T-97 could cruise easily at 68 mph with a maximum speed of 78 mph. These figures are most impressive for the late 1930s and speak volumes of the aerodynamic efficiency in the car’s design. Much like the larger T-87, the car still had great road handling and ride. After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, production of the T-97 was halted due to the occupying German army taking over Czechoslovakian vehicle production. Only 508 examples of the T-97 were produced between 1936 and 1939."
Specifications
Manufacturer: Závody Ringhoffer–Tatra
Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia
Drivetrain Configuration: Rear-engine, rear-wheel drive
Engine: 4-cylinder, air-cooled, 1749cc,40 HP
Transmission: 4-speed manual plus reverse
Top speed: 125 km/h (78 mph)
Years Produced: 1936-1939
Number Produced: 508
(Lane Motor Museum, www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/tatra-t-97-1...)
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"Le véhicule Tatra 97 était plus petit et avait un moteur 4 cylindres de 1749 cm3 de cylindrée. Pour une consommation moyennee 11 litres au 100, il atteignait des vitesses avoisinant les 130 km/h. A cette époque, il s'agissait de chiffres trés appréciables. La Tatra 97 eut cependant un triste destin. Aprés qu'elle a été vue par Adolf Hitler á l'exposition de Berlin en 1939, on décida l'arrét de sa production. En effet, la Tatra présentait de meilleurs paramétres et une silhouette plus séduisante que la nouvelle voiture allemande VW Coccinelle. On en resta à une production de 510 unités."
(La Bohême en voiture, ARTEFACTES, 2002)
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♫ la chanson "En rêvant" par Dorothée: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqTzDKzFX9c
"J'ai fait trois fois le tour de la terre
Dans mon hélicoptère
Je pars demain soir pour Jupiter
Si j'n'ai rien d'autre à faire
Mardi je visit'rai la Russie
Et mercredi la Patagonie
Ce week-end pour une fois
Je vais rester chez moi
En rêvant
On peut tout faire, tout se permettre
En rêvant
On est le roi, on est le maître
En rêvant
Plus rien ne peut jamais vous arrêter
En rêvant
Plus d'interdits, plus de limites
En rêvant
C'est vous qui décidez la suite
En rêvant
On est toujours heureux d'être amoureux
J'ai conquis le garçon de mes rêves
Juste en claquant des doigts
Et mes baisers lui donnent la fièvre
Car il est fou de moi
J'ai inventé un médicament
Qui rend drôles et gentils les méchants
J'ai arrêté les guerres
Et j'ai fermé l'Enfer
En rêvant
On peut tout faire, tout se permettre
En rêvant
On est le roi, on est le maître
En rêvant
Plus rien ne peut jamais vous arrêter
En rêvant
Plus d'interdits, plus de limites
En rêvant
C'est vous qui décidez la suite
En rêvant
On est toujours heureux d'être amoureux
J'ai fait trois fois le tour de la terre
Dans mon hélicoptère
Je pars demain soir pour Jupiter
Si j'n'ai rien d'autre à faire"
I brushed out Cirrus' hair because the humidity is wreaking having on my alpaca hair girls (and me LOL) and it was all puffed and staticky :)
Candidate #1: Sophie
Loves clothes, would be kind of demanding in that department. Looks good in pretty much everything. Lovely hair, but staticky.
Notes: Have already scratched part of her eyeshadow and has taken a fall to the ground already. Has sleep eyes, gaze correction.
Candidate #2: Belarus
Laid back. Likes video games. Could she handle a camera following her around? Looks good in most of the stuff I have.
Notes: No customizations, not comfortable opening up an EBL.
Candidate #3: Tertiary Jane
I heart her hair. Looks good in most things, clashes with some of the things that I have (for instance, her in green? Not a good idea!). Lovely, overall.
Notes: Has sleep eyes, gaze correction.
Candidate #4: Eden
Newest arrival (arrived a few days after Bennett). Still needs a hair cut and some minor customizations (i.e. gaze correction). Pretty cute, hair feels thin (but doesn't look like it) and one side of her hair sticks out away from her head than the other side. Looks younger than the rest of them.
Candidate #5: Bennett
Still in her box (lol), but comes out after I get my last 2 wisdom teeth pulled! Already glaring at me for leaving her in the box. I believe she'd look fabulous in just about anything. My main concern about using Bennett is that she is a limited doll (and was also my most expensive), but I didn't buy her with the intention of just having her as a shelf-only doll (but she is very nice to look at!).
March 31, 2010
Made this because I particularly loathe sitting on the damp ground to weed. I don't mind the weeding, but I do mind the damp. Sissy, I know. Thinking about making a whole slew of the little waterproof oilcloth mats. I think the kids would use them.
290/365
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Sooo....my fellow supe woudn't trade a day with me, so I had to take today off to avoid getting OT, and boy did it suck. The weather was SHITE....AGAIN...and I wasn't really in the mood to go outside and deal with rain and whipping winds for the umpteenth day, so I spent my day indoors, bored....but then I thought, might as well get some portrait practice in, and what better victim, then myself. The photo came out sort of meh. Not quite what I wanted, but hey, practice, practice, practice, makes perfect.
In other news, last night I watched Paranormal Activity and hey, LOOK, my new tripod is in the movie. Shweet! For all the freaking out everyone talked about, I saw this movie at like 3 in the morning, and went right to bed after with no dreams or nightmares at all. SPOILER ALERT: I did have to give them props for the sliding her body out of the bed trick. That looked freaky deaky, but everything else was sort of like okay powder on the floor, bite marks...I mean granted if that were real and happening to me I'd be a cat to claws to ceiling person, but for a movie...only so so. What got me was the Japanese version of the Ring. When that movie was over, for some reason I just sat there, and the movie ran through the credits, and then my tv went all staticky and right at that moment, my phone rang....holy crap!
In the back it's a bit staticky. You can't see the finer hairs but
they're going all over like Doc Brown.
Floating millimeters above the grass, its staticky miasma fries all the little buggys and microbes it passes above. Poison tube.
This is the slide that I cropped into a squircle. I had tried uploading it at the same time, but somehow the squircle one duplicated, rather than this one showing up. So here it is, in it's full plastic glory - the tube slide at our playground, across the street from my house (well, 6-plex actually. It's Navy housing... so we each share at least one wall with a neighbor - at least for now...)
The dry weather has made Amanda's hair really staticky...this is what happened after we took her PJs off one morning.
1. My hair was out of control staticky when I took this photo at the end of the work day. I don't even know what inspired me to take the photo except there was something about the feel of that static. When I saw the pic, I thought, yeah, that's how I feel right at this moment.
2. My diet choices this week (particularly the last two days) have been bad and it's totally thrown off my energy level. Am I tired? Am I ready to run a marathon? Hard to say.
3. To try and gain some equilibrium, I rode around town in the December chill. That felt good. Part of me wanted to ride more, but my feet were getting cold.
4.This week I did a good job of observing. I don't think of myself as a natural observer (who knows what I missed, ha). But what I saw this week gave me new eyes for looking at situations, provided I can hold on to some of it.
5. Pencilfox, I'm wearing a ring I bought in Alaska and it made me think of you.
In this last video of the Measuring charge series, I rub my shirt with rabbit fur to simulate what happens to your clothes in a washing machine when they get staticky. We then rub the rabbit fur on the ping pong ball and check its charge. We calculate the number of electrons transferred to the ball in this manner on the next slide.
It's cooooold in Sonoma, especially when you only have a woodstove to heat things. Lucy and Oscar have spent the day in a close radius to the woodstove, hence the staticky electric fur.
And they're listening to my Undiscovered Christmas Gems Playlist: The Come to Jesus Edition.
Find it here: leftcoastcowboys.com/2008/12/14/undiscovered-christmas-so...
It's really bringing me down. It doesn't seem like spring will ever get here. I've been chilled all day. My hands hurt from being so dry, I keep dropping things, can't even open a bottle of water. It was so nice and warm in LA. My hands healed instantly, my hair wasn't all dried out and staticky, I didn't have to wear layers of clothing....blah.
This is my first attempt of rooting with alpaca and I will say it will likely be my last. It's so fine-- it gets tangled easily, tends to be staticky and sticks to my neglected hands like Velcro. I finished the part and a part of me wants to rip it all out and reroot her in Saran----seriously!
Let me think about this....
EDiscovery Summit. Meeting on law having to do with use of electronic documents in legal matters.
Long day. Loads vibes into the car before dawn, below freezing, for a rare playing gig tonight.
There are no surprises - podium mic was a little 'hissy' during setup & I let it go. During program it gets worse - actually staticky. Sometimes you get away with it.
From this 33d floor ballroom, I set up early morning & saw the sun come up. Stayed & worked setup for the evening gig & saw the sun set.
March 31, 2010
Handmade birthday gift for a friend who likes to garden. It's a kneeler and a small waterproof mat. Because I personally hate sitting on the damp ground to pull weeds.
Chapped. I have a(nother) cold, and my lips are chapped. And my head is all stuffy, and my hair is all staticky, and my attitude is all grumpy. Bitch bitch bitch, moan moan moan.
I could not get enough of this elephant playing with tires. The horrible loud staticky noise, for which I apologize, is the sound of two other elephants being showered.